AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility by Ashon T. Crawley (Fordham University Press; 311 pages; $90 hardcover, $25 paperback). Draws on black studies, queer theory, and sound studies in a discussion of shouting, tarrying, whooping, and speaking in tongues in black Pentecostalism, with a focus the Apostolic Faith Mission in Los Angeles in 1906.
Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity edited by Jas M. Sullivan and William E. Cross Jr. (State University of New York Press; 349 pages; $95). Topics include internalized oppression and dual minority stress among black sexual minorities.
ANTHROPOLOGY
The Grecanici of Southern Italy: Governance, Violence, and Minority Politics by Stavroula Pipyrou (University of Pennsylvania Press; 256 pages; $59.95). A study of the political culture and struggle for official recognition of a Greek-speaking minority in Calabria whose linguistic distinctiveness dates back to late antiquity and possibly even the colonies of the classical era.
Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism by Debbie Lisle (University of Minnesota Press; 394 pages; $105 hardcover, $30 paperback). Topics include battlefield tourism, soldiers’ R&R, and other aspects of an interplay of war and tourism, from late 19th-century imperialism to the present.
Japanese American Ethnicity: In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations by Takeyuki Tsuda (New York University Press; 321 pages; $89 hardcover, $30 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in San Diego and Phoenix in a study of how Japanese-Americans from the second to fourth generations negotiate their relationship to their cultural heritage.
Making the Mark: Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting by Miroslava Prazak (Ohio University Press; 332 pages; $80 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in a Kuria farming community in rural southwestern Kenya to examine male and female views on genital cutting as opinions evolve over time and in response to NGO and other external campaigns.
ARCHAEOLOGY
The Casma City of El Purgatorio: Ancient Urbanism in the Andes by Melissa A. Vogel (University Press of Florida; 304 pages; $84.95). Draws on archaeological research over 16 years on the capital of the Casma state on the north coast of Peru, a city inhabited from about AD 700-1400.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson (Penn State University Press; 288 pages; $89.95). Develops an “acoustic topography” of the Renaissance Italian city and its soundscape of prayer, gossip, bells, and other noise.
COMMUNICATION
Digital, Political, Radical by Natalie Fenton (Polity Press; 226 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Topics include the challenges involved in reclaiming digital media for progressive ends.
CULTURAL STUDIES
Body Aesthetics edited by Sherri Irvin (Oxford University Press; 330 pages; $74). Writings by scholars in philosophy, sociology, disability theory, and other fields on such topics as disability on stage.
ECONOMICS
Macroprudential Regulation of International Finance: Managing Capital Flows and Exchange Rates edited by Dongsoo Kang and Andrew Mason (Edward Elgar Publishing; 328 pages; $135). Topics include investment patterns of foreign bank branches in South Korea and their role in the foreign exchange market.
Power in the International Investment Framework by Maria A. Gwynn (Palgrave Macmillan; 243 pages; $105). Focuses on Latin America in a study of global power relationships, developing countries, and the making of bilateral investment treaties.
EDUCATION
A Catholic Philosophy of Education: The Church and Two Philosophers by Mario O. D’Souza (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 304 pages; US$110 hardcover, US$32.95 paperback). Draws on the documents of the Roman Congregation for Catholic Education as well as the writings of Jacques Maritain and Bernard Lonergan.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times by Stacy Alaimo (University of Minnesota Press; 256 pages; $94.50 hardcover, $27 paperback). Argues for an approach to environmentalism through what is termed a material feminist posthumanism.
FILM STUDIES
Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom by Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez (Vanderbilt University Press; 290 pages; $35). A study of the Portuguese-born Brazilian actress, singer, dancer, and icon (1909-55) and her varied meanings for American film audiences, Latin Americans, and the gay community.
HISTORY
American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice by Albert J. Raboteau (Princeton University Press; 280 pages; $29.95). Examines the work, influences, and, at times, intertwined lives of Abraham Joshua Heschel, A. J. Muste, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Thomas Merton, Martin Luther King Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer.
The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 by Sara Pennell (Bloomsbury Academic; 256 pages; $114). Discusses the kitchen as a reflection of cultural, economic, technological, and other changes in British culture.
The City Is More Than Human: An Animal History of Seattle by Frederick L. Brown and Paul S. Sutter (University of Washington Press; 352 pages; $34.95). Topics include the city’s shift from livestock friendly to averse, and the rise of pet culture.
The Cold World They Made: The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter by Ron Robin (Harvard University Press; 365 pages; $35). A study of two RAND scholars whose vision of the Soviet threat elaborated in writings and hosted gatherings made them the power couple of Cold War strategic studies, complete with disciples and a legacy that persists today.
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn (Penguin Group; 404 pages; $30). Traces the 30-year relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and AP reporter Lorena Hickok, which ended with the former first lady’s death, in 1962, and spanned realms of friendship, work, activism, and intimacy.
From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism by Amanda B. Moniz (Oxford University Press; 314 pages; $74). Discusses a group of philanthropists, often physician-activists, from Britain, North America, and the West Indies and how they remade their ties in the wake of the American Revolution and continued their reform efforts with a transformed vision of humanity rather than empire.
Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich, translated by Jefferson Chase (Alfred A. Knopf; 998 pages; $40). Translation of the first-volume of a biography of the Nazi leader, originally published in German in 2013.
Interrogating Francoism: History and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Spain edited by Helen Graham (Bloomsbury Academic; 275 pages; $114 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Topics include the impact of Nazism and Fascism on the Spanish dictator’s domestic policies, and “memory wars” in contemporary Spain.
Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece by Devin E. Naar (Stanford University Press; 384 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Draws on sources in Ladino, Greek, French, and Hebrew in a study of how Salonica’s large Sephardic population reimagined their community and identity when the city went from Ottoman to Greek rule in 1912.
Knickerbocker Commodore: The Life and Times of John Drake Sloat, 1781-1867 by Bruce A. Castleman (State University of New York Press; 325 pages; $24.95). A biography of the controversial U.S. Naval commander, who occupied Monterey and declared the annexation of California in July 1846.
Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist by Linda B. Forgosh (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England; 296 pages; $29.95). A biography of the Baltimore-born magnate (1855-1944), who built his Newark, N.J., department store into the sixth largest in the nation.
A Political History of the Arameans: From Their Origins to the End of Their Polities by K. Lawson Younger Jr. (Society of Biblical Literature; 857 pages; $117.95 hardcover, $97.95 paperback). Draws on textual, archaeological, and sociological sources in a study of the Near Eastern people.
Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow by Brian D McInnes (Michigan State University Press; 192 pages; $24.95). Edition, in Ojibwe and English, of the family stories of Pegahmagabow (1882-1952), who was born in Shawanaga First Nation, Ontario, and became one of Canada’s most decorated indigenous soldiers.
INFORMATION STUDIES
Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses by Yves Gingras (MIT Press; 119 pages; $26). A critique of bibliometric rankings, such as aggregated data on citations, as an indicator of research quality.
LAW
Law and Religion in American History: Public Values and P.99rivate Conscience by Mark Douglas McGarvie (Cambridge University Press; 273 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $29 paperback). Discusses the Jeffersonian ideal of the separation of church and state and ways in which it has been understood, embraced, and departed from in American history; topics include recurrent attempts to claim the United States as a “Christian nation.”
Richard Posner by William Domnarski (Oxford University Press; 293 pages; $29.95). A biography of the American federal appeals court judge, public intellectual, and champion of the law and economics movement (b. 1939).
LITERATURE
Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture by Jenna Lay (University of Pennsylvania Press; 245 pages; $65). Discusses nuns and other Catholic women as authors in post-Reformation England, as well as objects of literary representation.
Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes edited by Louise Jillett (Bloomsbury Academic; 264 pages; $120). Essays on such topics as flanerie, vagrancy, and voluntary exile in Suttree.
Five Faces of Japanese Feminism: Crimson and Other Works by Sata Ineko, translated by Samuel Perry (University of Hawai’i Press; 274 pages; $65). Critical translation of five works of short fiction by the Japanese writer, spanning 1929 to 1950, and depicting women from cafe waitresses to Communist activists to women under Japanese occupation in Korea.
Jean Cocteau: A Life by Claude Arnaud, translated by Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandell (Yale University Press; 1,056 pages; $40). A biography of the French writer, filmmaker, and designer (1889-1963).
The Latino Nineteenth Century edited by Rodrigo Lazo and Jesse Aleman (New York University Press; 375 pages; $89 hardcover, $30 paperback). Essays on the literary history, from journalism to novels, of Latinos who lived in the United States across the “long 19th century.”
Passing Judgment: The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine by Helene E. Bilis (University of Toronto Press; 272 pages; US$65). Examines the judge as a recurrent archetypal character in French tragedy from Alexandre Hardy’s Scedase ou l’hospitalite violee to Racine’s Mithridate and Phedre.
The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee by Jan Wilm (Bloomsbury Academic; 251 pages; $108). A study of Coetzee’s aesthetics that argues that the South African writer’s style leads his readers to read his works slowly; links this phenomenon to philosophical aspects of his work and includes analyses of Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians, Elizabeth Costello, Life and Times of Michael K and Slow Man.
Splattered Ink: Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence by Sarah E. Whitney (University of Illinois Press; 272 pages; $95 hardcover, $30 paperback). Focuses on works by Patricia Cornwell, Jodi Picoult, Susanna Moore, Sapphire, and Alice Sebold.
Waiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative by Ruth Mackay (Ohio State University Press; 270 pages; $89.95). Explores recurrent, disquieting metaphors of up and down in American literary culture; works discussed include Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
MUSIC
Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punk edited by Mirko M. Hall, Seth Howes, and Cyrus M. Shahan (Bloomsbury Academic; 179 pages; $120). Essays on the cultural and social history of German punk from 1977 to reunification; topics include theories of punk by East German journalists, critics, and sociologists.
Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983 by TIm Lawrence (Duke University Press; 576 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). A study of the post-disco, post-punk, and hip-hop scenes in the city, and their convergence.
Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music by Kirsten Dyck (Rutgers University Press; 198 pages; $90 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Examines the rhetoric, fandom, and recruiting power of white-supremacist rock in Europe and the Americas.
PHILOSOPHY
Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy by Nadir Lahiji (Bloomsbury Academic; 273 pages; $114). Pays particular attention to architecture in a discussion of the baroque in relation to Deleuze, Foucault, Lacan, and other philosophers.
Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion edited by Lindsay Powell-Jones and F. LeRon Shults (Bloomsbury Academic; 194 pages; $114). Essays on the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, his frequent co-author Felix Guattari, and religion; topics include their “machinic animism.”
Foucault’s Critical Ethics by Richard A. Lynch (Fordham University Press; 236 pages; $55). Disputes the notion that the French philosopher’s view of power forecloses ethics; includes illustrative discussion of the gay community’s response to AIDS, and feminist care ethics.
God and Meaning: New Essays edited by Joshua W. Seachris and Stewart Goetz (Bloomsbury Academic; 265 pages; $120 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Writings by scholars in the analytic philosophy of religion and theology; topics include meaningfulness, eternity, and theism, and what God could and couldn’t do to make life meaningful.
The Philosophy Scare: The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War by John McCumber (University of Chicago Press; 224 pages; $45). Uses the case of Max Otto at UCLA in 1947 as a starting point to examine political pressures that transformed American philosophy departments---by 1960 nearly banishing existentialism and pragmatism along with Marxism.
The Tragedy of Philosophy: Kant’s “Critique of Judgment” and the Project of Aesthetics by Andrew Cooper (State University of New York Press; 297 pages; $90). Describes the Critique as an engagement with the philosophy-specific tragedy of failing to master nature through knowledge; topics include the work’s influence on Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Cornelius Castoriadis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
African Coalitions and Global Economic Governance by Michael Byron Nelson (Cambridge University Press; 294 pages; $99.99). Includes case studies of food safety, intellectual property, and agricultural trade in a study of how coalitions figure in African nations’ attempts to influence international institutions.
Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons by Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer (Cornell University Press; 288 pages; $39.95). Draws on previously untapped sources in a comparative study of how “state capacity” figured in the failed outcomes of both countries’ programs.
POPULAR CULTURE
Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature by Christopher Pizzino (University of Texas Press; 231 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Uses four works---Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Charles Burns’s Black Hole, and Gilbert Hernandez’s Love and Rockets---to examine comics’ still problematic standing.
PSYCHOLOGY
The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves by Charles Fernyhough (Basic Books; 305 pages; $27.50). Examines our inner voices as a crucial aspect of thought and creativity.
RELIGION
The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion From Antiquity to Today by April D. DeConick (Columbia University Press; 380 pages; $35). Traces the history, impact, and appeal of Gnosticism from ancient Egypt to New Age movements and sci-fi culture today.
How John Works: Storytelling in the Fourth Gospel edited by Douglas Estes and Ruth Sheridan (Society of Biblical Literature; 347 pages; $61.95 hardcover, $46.95 paperback). Essays on the John’s use of genre, character, persuasion, time, and other elements.
Out of Obscurity: Mormonism since 1945 edited by Patrick Q. Mason and John G. Turner (Oxford University Press; 347 pages; $99 hardcover, $35 paperback). Essays on such topics as the gender roles in the LDS church, Mormons’ involvement in conservative politics, and internal tensions over accounts of Mormon history.
Psychoanalytic Mediations Between Marxist and Postcolonial Readings of the Bible edited by Tat-siong Benny Liew and Erin Runions (Society of Biblical Literature; 241 pages; $53.95 hardcover, $38.95 paperback). Topics include trauma, “failed orality,” and the enigmatic ending of Mark’s Gospel, and how anti-imperial studies of the Bible manifest a “fetishism of empire.”
Who Rules the Synagogue? Religious Authority and the Formation of American Judaism by Zev Eleff (Oxford University Press; 330 pages; $74). Draws on previously untapped sources in a study of how Jewish practice in Americawent from being dominated by the laity to rabbinical control.
SOCIOLOGY
Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans by Corey D. Fields (University of California Press; 296 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A study of how racial identity shapes the political behavior of black Republicans.
URBAN STUDIES
Remaking the Urban Social Contract: Health, Energy, and the Environment edited by Michael A. Pagano (College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago/University of Illinois Press; 192 pages; $85 hardcover, $20 paperback). Essays on such topics as the smart-cities movement and urban environmental policy.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima by Aya Hirata Kimura (Duke University Press; 210 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Discusses Japanese mothers and others who mobilized as “citizen scientists” to gather data on radiation contamination in food after the 2011 nuclear-plant disaster.
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